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Yesterday, the House Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement held its first hearing of the 112th Congress on what it called, “ICE Worksite Enforcement – Up to the Job?” The title of the hearing reiterates where the focus is: enforcement and border security, not reforming immigration laws. Testimony, which can...

Last night, President Barack Obama delivered the 2011 State of the Union address. In a show of bipartisan solidarity following the recent tragic shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona, Republicans and Democrats abandoned the traditional partisan divide in their seating arrangement, and instead sat together. President Obama’s address was...

With much speculation on what President Obama will say in tomorrow’s State of the Union address, we have asked several Arab Americans from across the country to share their thoughts. Below is what they had to say. Please join the conversation and share your reaction to their comments and elaborate...

With much speculation on what President Obama will say in tomorrow’s State of the Union address, we have asked several Arab Americans from across the country to share their thoughts. Below is what they had to say. Please join the conversation and share your reaction to their comments and elaborate...

It will be a few days before anyone can offer a thorough reaction or analysis of the more than 1600 confidential documents, known as the Palestine Papers, leaked to Aljazeera about Israeli-Palestinian negotiations spanning a decade. But an initial reaction is warranted to the central revelation made in these documents,...

2011 marks the anniversary of an important moment in the history of U.S.-Arab relations, but probably not the moment most would think of. A century ago this year, Lebanese-American Ameen Rihani wrote the first English novel written by an Arab, The Book of Khalid, a story about two friends from...

It is difficult to find humor in Chairman Peter King’s planned congressional hearings targeting the Muslim community in the US, particularly in light of King’s history of making sweeping statements about American Muslims and extremism. But humor made its way through yesterday, when Politico shared the outburst of Islamophobe Steve...

For years now, the Palestinians and U.S. have been politically outmaneuvered by Israel which, like in every previous phase of negotiations, managed to collapse the latest round of U.S.-led direct talks through continued settlement expansion. By quagmiring the talks in the initial phase of whether or not to freeze settlements,...